Left Coast Sports Babe

The Minnesota Twins home opener at Target Field was snowed out. And somewhere the ghost of the Metrodome is laughing.

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Velveeta Voldemort today quoted by Ali Velshi on the Rachel Maddow show, saying he “didn’t remember making that many” phone calls on January 6. He doesn’t remember? Uh, time for another test – “Person, woman, man, camera, TV.”

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A no drama cloture vote paving the way for a no drama SCOTUS confirmation vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson! Sorry, media, despite the attempts to create suspense this one was always a slam dunk.

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53-47

Congratulations Justice Jackman.

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Apparently Lindsey Graham either chose not to or forgot to wear a tie to the Senate today, which was required for the dress code, and had to cast his vote against Ketanji from a cloakroom.

Insert too easy closet jokes here.

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Every time I hear Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock speak I get a warm fuzzy feeling about Georgia voters.

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Rand Paul, by deliberately holding up Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation for about 30 minutes for some unknown reason, once again makes us ask the question. “What took his neighbor so long?”

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With Susan Collins now saying she has COVID, again thankful that Chuck Schumer didn’t delay Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation even a day. Have a feeling she won’t be the last Senator to test positive.

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Mitch McConnell, who has repeatedly cheated to pack SCOTUS, is now lying about President Biden’s exceptional nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Not advocating slapping Mitch. but does make me want to say to him “Take our nominee’s name out of your bleeping mouth.

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Every time I hear Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock speak I get a warm fuzzy feeling about Georgia voters.

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Dick Durbin praising Mitt Romney, talking about Mitt’s dad George Romney, and saying “You are your father’s son,” was a nice bipartisan touch. Need more of those in the Senate..

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Chuck Grassley is actually pontificating about Democrats not doing a rigorous enough examination of Ketanji Brown Jackson. After he helped confirm Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 in less than a month. Well, Chuck is 88. And short-term memory is the first to go.

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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy on fire – “My message to adults w/ power who have decided to spend their days bullying (transgender) kids ‘Stop it, grow up – so you’re not ready to accept transgender people, I hope you come around some day. but these kids threaten no one, they’re hurting no one.'”

Murphy added “Important conversations we need to have about sports. But says he’s “walked into room of 1000 people & asked – no one’s had child lose to transgender girl.” “Saving girl’s sports is NOT reason for GOP bullying. But hate has a habit of selling in this country.”

Happy opening day.

But with the lockout and back and forth on “final threats” – doesn’t this feel like the baseball season that is starting “Not with a bang but a whimper?

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So with all the playoff teams assured, the last three games of the NBA regulation season are relatively meaningless. Of course some would say that about many of the first 79 games of the NBA regular season.

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Stephen Colbert tonight sounded a bit skeptical about Mark Zuckerberg claiming staffers “lovingly” refer to him as “The Eye of Sauron.” Well, maybe it is “lovingly” by comparison to some of the other names Facebook/Meta employees call Mark privately?

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President Biden has been in office over 14 months. Senate, in large part due to GOP obstruction, is STILL confirming his nominees. Imagine if a company CEO had to wait over a year to hire his executives. It’s amazing the Biden adminstration is getting as much done as they are.

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Republican Senators tell inflammatory lies to attack Ketanji Brown Jackson. Democratic Senators tell calm truths to support Ketanji Brown Jackson. Guess which the media prefers to cover?

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So many disgusting lies by a handful of GOP Senators about Ketanji Brown Jackson. And somehow it’s even worse to hear them from Marsha Blackburn, As a woman and a mother, it’s especially disappointing to see that another woman can be as awful as any man.

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Jamie Raskin’s term “gentlelady” for Marjorie Three Names might be worth adding to my lexicon right besides “Bless your heart.”

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The “America First” CPAC, fresh off their Florida Feb 2022 hatefest, will meet in May in Hungary w/ authoritarian PM Viktor Orban as keynote speaker. And no doubt some of most far right members of Congress. Don’t suppose State Dept can revoke their passports while they’re gone?

Every time I see part of a White House press briefing and think about how GOP is claiming Hunter Biden wrongly took advantage of his father’s power, I also think about how Peter Doocy is Fox and Friends’ Steve Doocy’s son.